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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> [...] and the point that many things |
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> break in namespaces without the symlink, since /etc/mtab does not |
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> reflect the state of the namespace. The latter in particular seems |
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> like a pretty fundamental limitation - the very concept of /etc/mtab |
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> is that mounts are global, and the design of linux is that mounts are |
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> NOT global. |
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If only someone would invent some sort of kernel feature that could make |
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the name "/etc/mtab" refer to different files in different processes.... |
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